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mercoledì 19 settembre 2007

New Book



Just arrived in the library : The Diary of Samuel Pepys.



Pepys recorded his daily life for almost ten years in breathtaking honesty; the women he pursued, his friends, his dealings, are all laid out. His diary reveals his jealousies, insecurities, trivial concerns, and his fractious relationship with his wife. It is an important account of London in the 1660s. Included are his personal account of the restoration of the monarchy, the Great Plague of London of 1665, the Great Fire of London (1666), and events of the Second Anglo-Dutch War (1665–1667). The juxtaposition of his commentary on politics and national events, alongside the very personal, can be seen from the beginning. (from Wikipedia)




The Diary of Samuel Pepys is a very important book for everybody interested in British History.




Some links




Samuel Pepys in the Wikipedia in French, Italian, Dutch and German.




If you're looking for a free edition of the book you'll easily find it using Google Book.




Two nice hyperlinked versions of the text are on pepysdiary.com (a web 2.0 style site) and pepys.info (more conventional but with the Cake Recipe !!)




Other sites :


The Pepys Library (he was a very informed bibliophile and he collected more than 3000 books)




and for impatient readers some quotes of the diary.




Autore : Samuel Pepys


Titolo : The Diary of Samuel Pepys - A Selection


Casa editrice : Penguin Classics


Dove : 828 PEP


venerdì 7 settembre 2007

Nuovo libro

Erich Hackl

scrittore austriaco nato il 26 maggio 1954 a Steyr.

Erich Hackl verbrachte seine Jugend in Steyr. Er besuchte dort das Gymnasium und studierte anschließend Germanistik und Hispanistik an den Universitäten in Salzburg, Salamanca und Málaga. Ab 1977 war er Lektor für deutsche Sprache und österreichische Literatur an der Universität Complutense Madrid. Von 1979 bis 1983 unterrichtete er als Lehrer für Deutsch und Spanisch in Wien, von 1981 bis 1990 am Institut für Romanistik der Universität Wien. Seit 1983 war er freier Schriftsteller. Zahlreiche Reisen haben ihn in verschiedene Länder Lateinamerikas geführt.
Erich Hackl, der Mitglied der Deutschen Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung in Darmstadt war, erhielt u. a. folgende Auszeichnungen: 1987 den Aspekte-Literaturpreis, 1991 den Evangelischen Buchpreis und den Österreichischen Förderungspreis für Literatur, 1994 den Kulturpreis des Landes Oberösterreich, 1995 den Gerrit-Engelke-Preis, 1996 den Bruno-Kreisky-Preis und 2002 den Solothurner Literaturpreis. Im Jahr 2006 hatte er die Brüder Grimm-Professur der Universität Kassel inne. (Wikipedia).

Il libro Aurora Anlaß racconta la storia di una ragazza divisa tra il dovere e la passione nella Spagna all'inizio del ventesimo secolo. Sua madre non sopporta di vedere la sua ragazza scappare e tradire le sue convinzioni. E' lei che racconta la storia...

C'è nella Wikipedia una notizia completa sulla narrativa e una altra sull'autore (in tedesco).

Autore : Erich Hackl
Titolo : Auroras Anlaß
Casa editrice : Diogenes
Dove : RA Hackl

lunedì 30 aprile 2007

Les poètes de la Renaissance

Nuovo libro nella biblioteca

Les dialogues du Prince et du Poète

Avec la Renaissance en Europe la condition de l'écrivain change et, bien sûr, c'est la relation avec le pouvoir politique qui se modifie. Contestataire (pamphlétaire) ou soutient du roi (courtisan) le poète n'est plus seulement un artiste. Or c'est le moment où le monde s'agrandit et où les connaissances sont en pleine croissance. C'est donc tout le rapport du poète et de la société qui est bouleversé.


Autore : Marie-Madeleine Fragonard
Titolo : Les dialogues du Prince et du Poète
Casa editrice : Gallimard
Lingua : Francese
Dove : 840.09 FRA

 
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